China Unicom Strikes iPhone Deal — Apple Device Set to Enter World's Largest Mobile Market — China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. announced a deal with Apple Inc. to sell iPhones in China starting later this year, bringing the popular device to the world's largest mobile market for the first time.

Microsoft's secret ‘screw Google’ meetings in D.C. — Microsoft's chief Washington lobbyist has been convening regular meetings attended by the company's outside consultants that have become known by some beltway insiders as “screw Google” meetings, DailyFinance has learned.

Investor Group Makes Play For Skype — A group of well known venture capital and large private equity firms are pooling resources to make a bid to acquire eBay-owned Skype, according to a source close to the deal. — Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreesen Horowitz …

Intel Raises Third-Quarter Revenue and Gross Margin Expectations — As a result of stronger than expected demand for microprocessors and chipsets, Intel Corporation now expects revenue for the third quarter to be $9.0 billion, plus or minus $200 million, as compared to the previous range of $8.5 billion, plus or minus $400 million.

A Well-Timed Letter of Rejection — We're no strangers to silly app rejection emails from Apple, but this one seems to take the cake (at least in our opinion). Convertbot 1.4 was rejected because our icon for Time is too similar to one of Apple's default resource icons for History/Recent.

25 Years Later, First Registered Domain Name Changes Hands — Did you know the first .com domain name that was ever registered was Symbolics.com, on the 15th of March 1985 by the now defunct Massachusetts-based computer manufacturer Symbolics? — While the first that was created in January …

GScreen's Dual-Screen Spacebook Coming Soon(ish) — This is one of the first photos of an actual gScreen's dual 15.4-inch screen Spacebook—two full screens (not just an extra 10-inch one like Lenovo's W700. Really. There were renders before, but here are the photos.

Readers as patrons in the digital age — A few months ago someone sent me a link to a short story a friend of his had written and posted online. I made the mistake of glancing at it while at work and then got so absorbed I couldn't stop reading until I was done.

Street View gets down to business — Finding a business with Street View just became easier. For example, if you search for “thai restaurants near mountain view” on Google Maps, and click on a search result, a bubble pops up with various links, including a link to “Street View”.

Report: Virtualization Market Up for Grabs — Microsoft is a come-from-behind favorite in at least one area of virtualization led by VMware. — Many technology areas are still hurting due to the long-running recession. However, one area that appears to be a harbinger of good news is virtualization, according to a new report.

Quantum Cryptography for the Masses — A new partnership will make quantum cryptography more widely available. — Quantum cryptography could finally hit the mainstream thanks to a deal that will allow customers to adopt the technology without having to install dedicated optical fibers.

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet — Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. — They're not much happier …

AdWords API v2009 (beta) now available to all advertisers — Today, we are pleased to announce that AdWords API v2009, which we released to a limited whitelist in June, is now available to all API users! Compared to previous versions of the AdWords API, v2009 offers you new features and greater speed at a lower cost.